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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no s

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste. – Peter McWilliams

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There once was a sculptor called Phidias
Who had a distaste for the hideous.
So he sculpt Aphrodite
Without any nightie
Which shocked the ultra-fastidious. – Anon.

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If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. – Erma Bombeck

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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – Francis H. Bradley

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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt. – Barack Obama

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